TSA...Easy????

From my personal experience, the specimen paper is usually easier than past papers. You should try out some past papers and see what happens.

That's what I'm planning to do, but I've looked at some other papers and it doesn't seem that difficult.

I'm a GCSE student, hoping to apply for PPE for Oxfod in two years time, but seeing as I cba rn to revise for my GCSEs lol, I decided to do the TSA specimen paper instead...Now I'm in year 11, I have two years to really get into Oxford mode (lol right now I'm not) so I did it expecting to do really badly.

I got 68%

Literally I've quadruple checked it, I defo got 68% in the specimen paper. Now I do a lot of debating, so the logic questions were alright and the maths ones weren't *too* bad lol, but but I just found out 70% is a top mark, most get high 50s.

If you done the TSA, did you find it easy? Was it harder on the day? Or if you've done the specific specimen paper here: http://www.admissionstestingservice.org/images/24890-tsa-cambridge-specimen-test.pdf

Was this easier or harder than general? I'd like to know lol because either this was a fluke, or I'm smarter than I thought lol (which I don't feel like that's the case).

You are aware that you've done a specimen Cambridge TSA, not Oxford? The Oxford TSA is different and has an essay component. Also as far as I'm aware, the scores they publish are adjusted for the difficulty of the paper to get a normal distribution, they're not the raw scores.

The multiple choice section is similar in both, and yeah I found the adjusted scores and also did a couple past papers. I got like 56 in one, but 67 in the other (both adjusted according to the normal distribution for that year). By general point is the TSA is easier than I thought it'd be (though still difficult, I can't do half the maths questions heh), so I was just wondering whether I'm just pretty good (which I doubt lol), or whether my scores aren't average, people do find it easy in general and I was wrong about it.